The Silent Enemy (1930)

Chief Yellow Robe: Chetoga - Tribe Leader

Quotes 

• [introducing the film] 

  Chetoga - Tribe Leader : This picture is the story of my people. I speak for them because I know your language. In the beginning, the Great Spirit gave us this land. The wild game was ours to hunt. We were happy when game was plenty. In years of famine, we suffered. Soon, we will be gone, your civilization will have destroyed us. But by your magic, we will live forever. We thank the white men who helped us to make this picture. They came to our forests, they shared our hardships, they listened to our old men around the campfire. We told them the stories our grandfathers told us. That is why this picture is real. Look not upon us as actors, we are living our own life today as we lived it yesterday. Everything you see is as it always has been. Our buckskin clothes, our birchbark canoe, our wigwam, and our bows and arrows. All were made by my people just as they always have done. Only six of these Indians have ever seen a motion picture. Many of them are still in the forest, hunting the game that is ever growing less. Still it is the great drama of the North, the struggle for meat and never-ending fight against the silent enemy.